Cory Claxon

Coming soon: violin lessons!

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The Olive Hill Center for Arts and Education will soon be offering one-on-one violin lessons. Elaine Swinney with E Studio Violin will be offering private violin lessons at the Olive Hill Center for Arts and Education. Swinney has played with symphonies all up and down the east coast, as well as several nationally renowned groups, …

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A Chessie System GP-7 crests the grade at Mountain Top, the steepest on the Lexington Subdivision, at nearly 3% in both directions. This was between Olive Hill and Grahn. (C&OHS)

Railroad returning to Olive Hill, in model form

The Olive Hill Historical Society is taking up another historical initiative by forming a committee that will build an HO scale model railroad that will be based on the line that used to run through Carter, Rowan, Bath, Montgomery, Clark, and Fayette counties. It is the former Chesapeake & Ohio’s Lexington Subdivision. The railroad left …

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